Penn State University Press
Founded | 1956 |
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Country of origin | United States |
Headquarters location | University Park, Pennsylvania |
Publication types | Books, Academic journals |
Official website |
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Penn State University Press, also called The Pennsylvania State University Press, was established in 1956, and is a non-profit publisher of scholarly books and journals. It is the independent publishing branch of the Pennsylvania State University and is a division of the Penn State University Library system. The Penn State University Press primarily publishes scholarship but, as a part of a land-grant university with a mandate to serve the citizens of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, it also specializes in producing books about Pennsylvania and the Penn State University. The areas of scholarship the Press is most known for are philosophy, art history, medieval studies, Latin American studies, political science, religious studies, and early American history. The Penn State Press employs approximately 24 people, and produces about 70 books a year and over 50 journals. The Press also has several internship programs for Penn State students interested in a publishing career.
Some of the Press's most notable titles include:
- Graphic Medicine Manifesto by MK Czerwiec, Ian Williams, Susan Merrill Squier, Michael J. Green, Kimberly R. Myers, and Scott T. Smith]
- Field Guide to Wild Mushrooms of Pennsylvania and the Mid-Atlantic by Bill Russell
- Wood Hicks and Bark Peelers: A Visual History of Pennsylvania’s Railroad Lumbering Communities; The Photographic Legacy of William T. Clarke by Ronald E. Ostman and Harry Littell
- From Vietnam to 9/11: On the Front Lines of National Security by John Murtha
- Pennsylvania: A History of the Commonwealth Edited by Randall Miller and William Pencek
- The English translation of The Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti by Robert Thurman
- The English translation of A History of Argentina in the Twentieth Century by Luis Alberto Romero, Translated by James P. Brennan
- Who is Black?: One Nation's Definition by F. James Davis
- Fast and Feast: Food in Medieval Society by Bridget Ann Henisch
The first book published by Penn State Press was Penn State Yankee: The Autobiography of Fred Lewis Pattee, the autobiography of a noted Penn State faculty member who was the first professor of American Literature in the United States.
Please visit our journals home page for a full list of journals.
Partial list of journals published by Penn State University Press
- ab-Original
- Bustan
- The Chaucer Review
- Comparative Literature Studies
- Edith Wharton Review
- The Good Society
- Journal of Africana Religions
- Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies
- Journal of General Education
- Journal of Information Policy
- The Journal of Jewish Ethics
- The Journal of Nietzsche Studies
- Journal of Posthuman Studies
- Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies
- Preternature
- Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History
- SHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies
- Studies in American Humor
- Studies in American Jewish Literature
- Transportation Journal
- Utopian Studies
- William Carlos Williams Review